Significant challenges accompanied R&O’s construction of a new 125,000-sq-ft corporate compound—offices, manufacturing plant and a warehouse—for military contractor KIHOMAC in Clearfield, Utah. Heavy snow and winter winds made safety critically important.
The airport in Hanksville, Utah, was built in 1947, and in the post-World War II years served as an emergency landing strip for planes traveling between Denver and Los Angeles.
To deliver this $33-million project on an accelerated 15-month schedule, the team juggled the construction timeline to contend with some of the wettest weather in Dallas-Fort Worth history.
Built in 1925 as the Louisiana National Bank, then renovated as the State Office Building in the 1960s, the new Watermark hotel contains 144 guest rooms, conference centers, fitness areas and two restaurants.
After eight years in design and a demanding two-year, nine-phase construction schedule, the Moody Gardens Aquarium now welcomes guests to an undersea world.
The $23.08-million restoration and retrofit of the 1925 Virginia Hotel into the new Vantage State Building aimed to return the building to its original grandeur while incorporating modern amenities.